1 00:00:16,39 --> 00:00:16,81 Who's 2 00:00:53,34 --> 00:00:55,68 going to try to get a hold of you like your hat 3 00:00:55,68 --> 00:00:58,65 and grab a chair just got to Magic Jack What's that all about. 4 00:00:59,97 --> 00:01:04,59 I got the story to do. But you might be the person to get out the most. 5 00:01:06,62 --> 00:01:09,21 Listen to one of these letters to the editor. 6 00:01:09,23 --> 00:01:13,12 It's story here Fred but I'm afraid it's not a very good one. 7 00:01:13,94 --> 00:01:19,87 I'm not sure it's the kind of story. Our readers would like. Us into this. 8 00:01:19,89 --> 00:01:21,35 Dear Editor. 9 00:01:21,36 --> 00:01:23,26 Usually I agree with your editorials 10 00:01:23,26 --> 00:01:27,46 but your call for civil defense volunteers was not. 11 00:01:27,48 --> 00:01:29,63 This it is attacked my plans are made 12 00:01:29,63 --> 00:01:33,65 and they don't include waiting around to get killed. 13 00:01:33,67 --> 00:01:36,74 I'm going to take my family to a place in the country where we'll be safe. 14 00:01:37,91 --> 00:01:42,09 I think Imus patriotic as the next guy a pretty dumb to remain in the city 15 00:01:42,09 --> 00:01:47,51 when those bombs start falling. Name doesn't matter. 16 00:01:48,84 --> 00:01:54,19 Take to the hills with another member of the take to the hills fraternity. 17 00:01:54,21 --> 00:01:58,13 Sees you quite a few of them here some of prey there are the worst of it is 18 00:01:58,13 --> 00:01:59,69 that most of them are intelligent people. 19 00:02:00,00 --> 00:02:03,60 Good citizens if you like but they made up their minds without thinking 20 00:02:03,60 --> 00:02:08,30 that letting fear push them. Is pushing them into something pretty close to trees. 21 00:02:10,25 --> 00:02:11,84 Thank God. Most people don't feel that way 22 00:02:13,01 --> 00:02:16,10 but enough of them to make it a serious problem. 23 00:02:17,00 --> 00:02:19,45 You know there's really nothing to be gained by turning tail 24 00:02:19,45 --> 00:02:21,03 and running after an enemy attack. 25 00:02:22,16 --> 00:02:26,08 First of all of the highways would be about the most dangerous place you could be. 26 00:02:26,10 --> 00:02:30,02 The second mass evacuation of cities just doesn't work. 27 00:02:30,99 --> 00:02:33,79 Most people don't know that for the reasons they've never thought much about it. 28 00:02:34,71 --> 00:02:38,89 The third reason is the simplest of all if war comes and we desert our cities. 29 00:02:39,80 --> 00:02:45,85 We've lost the war. Only we can help these letter writers see it that way. 30 00:02:45,86 --> 00:02:50,42 We must make them realize there must be no taking to the hills their own 31 00:02:50,42 --> 00:02:52,45 experiences could help them realize it. 32 00:02:53,41 --> 00:02:57,30 For instance it's easy to imagine what would happen if most of the people in town 33 00:02:57,30 --> 00:02:59,00 took to the highways all at once. 34 00:03:00,16 --> 00:03:04,31 All you have to do is look at some of our Sunday traffic jam unless people know 35 00:03:04,31 --> 00:03:10,11 better an enemy attack would cause a hundred times as many people to jam the roads 36 00:03:10,98 --> 00:03:14,28 add to that the desperate fear and panic that had to be pushing the mob 37 00:03:15,07 --> 00:03:20,19 and Mr you've got a catastrophe on your hands a civil defense people are just being 38 00:03:20,19 --> 00:03:20,35 realistic 39 00:03:20,35 --> 00:03:25,64 and not planning mass evacuation the roads have to be kept open for rescue work for 40 00:03:25,64 --> 00:03:26,45 firefighting and 41 00:03:27,69 --> 00:03:31,30 that means every car which is not officially authorized will have to be stopped 42 00:03:31,30 --> 00:03:36,27 and moved out of the way as long as I live I won't forget what happened in the last 43 00:03:37,02 --> 00:03:42,29 some European people to build I saw Miles after miles of refugees trying to get 44 00:03:42,29 --> 00:03:43,50 away from cities under attack. 45 00:03:44,76 --> 00:03:49,84 All they did was chalk up the road so hardly anything even they couldn't get there. 46 00:03:51,17 --> 00:03:53,78 It's happened many many times and in many different cities. 47 00:03:53,97 --> 00:03:58,74 It could happen in our city. If this were tomorrow instead of yesterday. 48 00:03:58,92 --> 00:04:00,78 If this were. Part town and you 49 00:04:00,78 --> 00:04:04,95 or someone you love are trapped inside of a waiting frantically for help 50 00:04:04,95 --> 00:04:10,06 that help would never come the ambulance rescue trucks vehicles carrying supplies 51 00:04:10,06 --> 00:04:14,52 and equipment would they stop cold in their tracks they could never get through to 52 00:04:14,52 --> 00:04:19,25 help the injured put out fires bring tires the bandages of thousands of other 53 00:04:19,25 --> 00:04:23,21 things vitally needed an enemy attack just as the roads must be kept 54 00:04:23,21 --> 00:04:29,01 or so must the depots terminals of the airport every available kind of 55 00:04:29,01 --> 00:04:31,33 transportation will be needed for emergency work. 56 00:04:32,51 --> 00:04:35,87 We know that mass evacuation can never be permitted if only for one reason 57 00:04:36,78 --> 00:04:37,94 and all important. 58 00:04:38,80 --> 00:04:39,04 The fact 59 00:04:39,04 --> 00:04:44,00 that every able bodied person is needed in the city before as well as after an 60 00:04:44,00 --> 00:04:48,55 attack putting out fires for example will require help from everyone. 61 00:04:49,62 --> 00:04:50,36 We must realize 62 00:04:50,36 --> 00:04:55,91 that in modern warfare city dwellers find themselves right in the front line after 63 00:04:55,92 --> 00:04:59,90 an attack our first responsibility will be to keep our heads 64 00:04:59,90 --> 00:05:01,73 and get back to our jobs 65 00:05:02,43 --> 00:05:07,62 or each of us has a job to do no matter what happens the people of the city must be 66 00:05:07,62 --> 00:05:12,27 fed supplied with electricity and heat the city must be kept alive 67 00:05:13,16 --> 00:05:18,24 and it would take everything the city has to do you know Fred actually staying in 68 00:05:18,24 --> 00:05:18,93 the city to help. 69 00:05:18,95 --> 00:05:24,66 That's an atomic attack is not nearly as dangerous as a lot of people think the 70 00:05:24,67 --> 00:05:31,21 danger of a lingering radiation is not really very serious after an atomic air 71 00:05:31,21 --> 00:05:33,29 burst the danger of radiation 72 00:05:33,29 --> 00:05:38,05 and falling debris is over within the now have over and above 73 00:05:38,05 --> 00:05:43,51 that we know from the experience of London Berlin and other European cities 74 00:05:44,25 --> 00:05:46,07 but people didn't even want to leave their city. 75 00:05:46,86 --> 00:05:51,62 Most of those who did leave soon began trickling back into town of course a few 76 00:05:51,62 --> 00:05:58,09 people should be evacuated small children the aged infirm so on these people should 77 00:05:58,09 --> 00:05:59,93 be moved by one terribly by their family. 78 00:06:00,00 --> 00:06:04,96 It's not during an attack of course but the able bodied person must stay 79 00:06:04,96 --> 00:06:10,58 and help modern warfare has no respect at all for civilian like it or not. 80 00:06:10,85 --> 00:06:16,88 Each of us has his share of fighting to do his share of danger to face running away 81 00:06:16,88 --> 00:06:19,27 from a duty would be desertion pure and simple. 82 00:06:20,72 --> 00:06:23,58 In the army it would mean court martial. 83 00:06:23,59 --> 00:06:25,79 As a civilian it would not only be treasonable 84 00:06:26,59 --> 00:06:28,29 but it would mean having to live with the knowledge 85 00:06:28,29 --> 00:06:30,63 that in deserving irresponsibility. 86 00:06:31,74 --> 00:06:38,40 We failed yourself your family your friends your city deserving our 87 00:06:38,40 --> 00:06:40,88 cities would be handing the enemy a victory far greater 88 00:06:40,88 --> 00:06:45,16 and less costly to them than they could ever achieve the bomb damage alone their 89 00:06:45,16 --> 00:06:50,46 very idea in attacking our cities would be to destroy our will to fight the enemy 90 00:06:50,46 --> 00:06:50,92 knows 91 00:06:50,92 --> 00:06:56,43 that a city deserted by its people its a city robbed of its power to resist its 92 00:06:56,44 --> 00:07:01,61 power to produce the enemy knows as we do that in an American city of today. 93 00:07:01,96 --> 00:07:05,61 Each of us the pens and all the other directly 94 00:07:05,62 --> 00:07:09,60 or indirectly each of our jobs depend on all the jobs of the others. 95 00:07:11,19 --> 00:07:14,21 Our biggest job will be to continue putting out equipment 96 00:07:14,21 --> 00:07:19,64 and fighting gear our nation depends on to desert the day to throw away our most 97 00:07:19,64 --> 00:07:24,57 feared weapon America's power to produce there's no getting away from it. 98 00:07:25,48 --> 00:07:28,97 When the time comes. Each one of us must stay in our cities and fight. 99 00:07:30,02 --> 00:07:30,94 I wish there were some other way 100 00:07:30,94 --> 00:07:37,87 but there's yes there are some pretty grim prospect out of this hell of an enemy 101 00:07:37,87 --> 00:07:39,82 a tactical smashing out of the sky at any time 102 00:07:41,25 --> 00:07:45,62 and every last one of us will have to be ready to face what happens then it's only 103 00:07:45,62 --> 00:07:51,26 a suffering and misery broken homes death dangers 104 00:07:51,27 --> 00:07:54,52 that used to belong only to soldiers but it's got to be able to take it 105 00:07:54,52 --> 00:07:59,04 and come back fighting everything we hope for everything we believe everything 106 00:07:59,04 --> 00:08:00,77 America has touched. Will depend on us 107 00:08:00,77 --> 00:08:06,39 and what we do know a lot of people behind the Iron Curtain. 108 00:08:07,63 --> 00:08:13,44 I wondering whether we can take a different tact carefully measuring our courage a 109 00:08:13,45 --> 00:08:20,24 capacity to fight our capacity for sacrifice they think they have the answers 110 00:08:22,38 --> 00:08:26,52 for you and I and every American has to look them in their minds 111 00:08:26,52 --> 00:08:31,77 and hearts to come up with a few lessons of the real question is 112 00:08:33,76 --> 00:08:40,56 Have Americans got a good deal got to get 113 00:08:44,79 --> 00:08:46,09 out on the most.